Thread by @btcdarwinist

The term "meme" was coined by @RichardDawkins on the 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", wherein the author explores a gene centered view of evolution. These ideas explain why it makes evolutionary sense for genetically related individuals to behave selflessly and 1/11

also why an individual risks its life and health to bring its offspring to the world. The term "meme" is meant to represent an analogous to the gene on a second layer to biology which is also susceptible to evolution, namely, human culture. Thus, the term is meant to convey 2/11

a unit of human culture which is subjected to the similar mutation, competition and selection pressures as genes. Whereas genes compete between each other for number of copies in the next generation of hosts, memes compete for mindshare. Evolving genes are constantly 3/11

“discovering” the laws of physics through trial and error and perfecting the reproductive success they provide to their host through natural selection. This is why similar structures arise is unrelated organisms (see convergent evolution). Likewise, through 4/11

trial and error, memes are also discovering the laws of physics and have very different reproductive success. However, memes can evolve and propagate much faster than genes, as they are not limited to random mutation and "vertical" propagation between generations. Much like 5/11

the “selfish” gene, memes do not care for individuals, let alone governaments. In fact, governments, are nothing but a meme which, like it or not, have been successful at allowing human coordination to the level seen in the early 21st century. #bitcoin is a meme born from the6/11

combination of public key cryptography, proof or work and sound money memes. Among many interesting properties, this meme reduces the surface of consensus required for individuals to peacefully cooperate to an outright minimum and very elegantly distributes rewards and 7/11

penalties to individuals which interact with it. Selection pressure is key to how quickly a gene/meme outcompetes others in a population. Much like prices in the economy, #bitcoin distills an enormous amount of information required for human coordination to a very simple 8/11

information: “Number Go Up”. All other forms of human coordination so far are much more convoluted and require consensus through a much larger surface. By reducing the surface of consensus, securing holder's wealth and allowing holders to focus on their trade, #bitcoin’s 9/11

fitness looks like napalm ready to burn the dry forest of previous human coordination memes to ashes. Selective pressure will be put into an overdrive as governments around the world "stimulate" the economy and penalize fiat/government bond holders. In the free market of 10/11

ideas, governments have no option but to compete. They better start upping their game. 11/11

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